ANF foils bid to smuggle heroin from Islamabad airport

ISLAMABAD: Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) authorities on Sunday foiled a bid to smuggle heroin from Islamabad International Airport through an AbuDhabi-bound flight, ARY NEWS reported.

According to the ANF spokesman, the accused person concealed several packets of heroin in his bag and during checking at the Islamabad airport, the authorities caught him red-handed trying to smuggle it via Abu Dhabi-bound flight.

“The seized ice heroin weighed around 16 kilograms and worth up to millions in the international market,” he said and added that the accused is shifted to an undisclosed location for further probe into the matter.

On February 13, a spokesperson for the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) revealed details of 30 drug busts across the country seizing 5965 kilograms of drugs.

The spokesman detailed one of the crackdown which took place on a heroin plantation where the intoxicant was being grown on a 66 hectare of agricultural land.

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33 people have been taken under arrest in the crackdowns which include 2 women, all those taken into custody were either aiders or abettors in the heinous crime.

10 cars have also been confiscated during the raids which were used to transport the narcotics to different areas in and outside the country, the spokesperson said.

The seized narcotics are worth 1.198 billion dollars.